Facts and figures

Contraception

  • 220 million women want to plan their childbearing but do not have access to it (global)
  • 87 million unintended pregnancies per year (global)
  • 46 million terminations of pregnancy (global)
  • 9% of women use medicalized contraceptives (West Africa)

Population

  • 8 billion people (global, 2023)
  • 82 million: annual global population growth
  • 1.3 billion women of reproductive age (15-49) (global)
  • 1.5 billion people (Africa)
  • 2.2 billion people (Africa, projected 2060)

Fertility

  • 1.5 children per woman (Switzerland)
  • 2.5 children per woman (global)
  • 4.6 children per woman (Africa)
  • 5.0 children per woman (Benin)
  • 7.3 children per woman (Niger) (worldwide record)

Deaths

  • 100,000 women die each year from unplanned pregnancies (global)
  • 60,000 deaths per year due to unsafe abortions (global)

Sources:

www.who.int

www.worldbank.org

www.prb.org

www.wittgensteincentre.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20180903105607/

http://www.compteur.net/compteur-population-mondiale/